Blog
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
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CBO Releases New Baseline Ahead of President's Budget Estimate
In advance of its scheduled release of an analysis of the President's budget, CBO has updated its budget projections for the next ten years. Their new...
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Update: Impending Fiscal Speed Bumps
Congress approached and addressed the first impending " Fiscal Speed Bump" this week, cleanly funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with...
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Rattner Testifies Before Senate Finance Committee on Tax Fairness
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on how best to achieve "tax fairness" as a part of their larger focus on tax reform. Testifying...
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King v. Burwell and the Federal Budget
The Supreme Court ruling on the King v. Burwell case being argued before the Court today will have major policy and political ramifications that have...
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Congress May Kick the Can Again on the Doc Fix
Repeating a story heard many times before, in a speech at a Federation of American Hospitals conference, House Ways And Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI...
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CBO and BPC Predict Debt Ceiling Deadline Not Until the Fall
October or November -- that's the deadline by which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts lawmakers must increase the debt...
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Financial Report of the U.S. Government Shows Bleak Picture
Every year, the Treasury Department releases the Financial Report of the United States Government, which provides a detailed picture of the government...
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Fisher, Gregg, and Weinstein: A Prescription for What's Ailing ACOs
Dr. Elliott Fisher, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), and Dr. James Weinstein penned an op-ed published in Modern Healthcare discussing the need to...
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Keith Hall Appointed as Next CBO Director
Speculation over the next director of the Congressional Budget Office ended today as the House and Senate Budget Committees announced that Keith Hall...
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Lorenzen: Comprehensive Social Security Reform is Best to Address SSDI Insolvency
Ed Lorenzen, Senior Advisor for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified Wednesday in front of the Ways and Means Social Security...
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The National Debt Must Be A Priority For The Next President
No matter how difficult the conversation, the national debt needs to be a top priority in the 2016 presidential election, and the next president needs...
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Medicare Slowdown at Risk: The Imperative of Fixing ACOs
Today, Fix the Debt, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, and Dartmouth College released a paper titled Medicare Slowdown at Risk: The Imperative of Fixing...